Lead Clinician - Band 7 in Castleford inCastleford PUBLISHED WED 11 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

1 X Vacancy for Lead Clinician

Is CAMHS your passion? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

Hi, my name, is Karl Senior and I am the Team Manager for the Wakefield CAMHS Specialist Therapies Team!

We are keen to recruit an experienced clinician to lead our current clinical work, alongside developing the clinical skills of the team.

We offer a multi-disciplinary approach to care and treatment in the provision of assessments and interventions for Children and Young People, experiencing moderate to severe complex emotional, behavioural and psychological issues resulting in mental health difficulties.

Ideally, candidates will have extensive experience working within the field of children and young persons mental health, in a health care setting. They should be able to demonstrate core knowledge and skills in mental health assessment, formulation, care planning and treatment.

It is desirable for candidates to already be trained in a governed evidence-based therapy such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Psychotherapy or Family Therapy.

We pride ourselves on offering flexible working patterns when this is needed, for example to facilitate caring responsibilities. The service operates Monday-Friday; 9am-5pm however successful applicants would be expected to have the flexibility to work occasional extended hours to facilitate service effectiveness.

The successful candidate, will work alongside the team manager and other lead clinicians in the service, in the development and implementation of new and innovative ways of delivering evidence-based treatments,

providing clinical leadership through the provision of clinical supervision, caseload management supervision and teaching.

You will case hold within this role.

The team is based between Airedale Health Centre in Castleford and Drury Lane Health Centre in Wakefield. The post advertised is to cover Wakefield and the 5 towns. Being a car driver is essential due to the potential distance required to travel when completing home/clinic-visits.

I would love to give the opportunity for further discussion surrounding the role, so please do not hesitate to reach out to myself. Visits to the team are welcomed and strongly encouraged!

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

About us

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

To provide highly specialist skills and expertise, facilitating interventions of the highest quality in the field of mental health, including emergency assessments and intensive interventions with children, young people and their families.

To work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, providing consultation and teaching for other agencies/professionals.

To provider supervision and teaching to all other disciplines within CAMHS and to deputise as agreed for the team leader.

To promote safeguarding and the welfare of children and young people

For full Job Description please see attached documents.